News and activities
CLEAR group is working on a new project: Birds and Beasts
One of the members of the CLEAR group, Julia Kuznetsova, has defended her dissertation tittled «Linguistic Profiles: Correlations between Form and Meaning» on May 6, 2013.
Julia Kuznetsova with Laura Janda (supervisor), Endre Mørck (leader of the committee), Maria Polinsky (1st opponent), Peter Svenonius (leader of the defense), Mark Turner (2nd opponent)
On February 22, 2013 the CLEAR group has organized a conference "Cognitive Linguistics in the Triangle: Slavic and Beyond" (see the program). Several photos from the conference:
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Our book "Why Russian aspectual prefixes aren’t empty: prefixes as verb classifiers" has been published by Slavica. The website accompanying the book is available at the university of Tromsø's website. See the book annoncement.
One of the members of the CLEAR group, Svetlana Sokolova, has defended her dissertation tittled «Asymmetries in Linguistic Construal. Russian Prefixes and the Locative Alternation» on September 24, 2012.
 Svetlana Sokolova with Laura Janda (supervisor), Mirjam Fried (1st opponent), Antonio Fabregas (leader of the committee),Tuomas Huomo (2nd opponent), and Endre Mørck (chair, department of linguistics) |
One of the CLEAR group leaders Laura Janda has been awarded the 2011 research prize from the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at the University of Tromsø. Janda was nominated jointly by CASTL and the Departement of Language and Linguistic; see here for an excerpt of the nomination letter. Congratulations!
In the year 2011/2012 Laura A. Janda and Tore Nesset are group leaders of the Research group "Time is Space: Unconscious Models and Conscious Acts" at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo.
Exploring Emptiness: A database for learners and teachers of Russian Blog by Laura Janda
Opening of the "Exploring Emptiness database"
Laura Janda nominated to the university research prize!
What can Russian verbs tell ut about gender stereotypes? Blog by Julia Kuznetsova
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The Issues of Variation: Are there "Empty" Prefixes in Russian? Blog by Svetlana Sokolova